Hector Berlioz's Books

In this delightful and now classic narrative, written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, readers are made privy to 25 highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.

Hector Berlioz was not only a composer, but a renowned writer and critic, and his Memoirs and Evenings with the Orchestra are particularly well-known and loved. This book provides new translations of his criticism in English, taking him from his student days as a participant in musical polemics over Rossini to his first years of mature success.

This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.

Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.

A two-volume selection of Berlioz's letters to family, friends and fellow musicians, giving a first hand insight into his life.

This piano transcription by Liszt is reprinted from the ca. 1865 edition published by Buttner-Thierry in Paris.

A Travers Chants is the collection of writings selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China.

Book's by Hector Berlioz

Evenings with the Orchestra

Evenings with the Orchestra

Berlioz on Music

Berlioz on Music

The Musical Madhouse

The Musical Madhouse

Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Berlioz on Music

Berlioz on Music

Life and Letters of Berlioz

Life and Letters of Berlioz

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique for Solo Piano

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique for Solo Piano

Evenings with the Orchestra

Evenings with the Orchestra

The Art of Music and Other Essays

The Art of Music and Other Essays

The Musical Madhouse

The Musical Madhouse

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